Professor Matt Goodwin has been pretty busy this month commentating on the ever-changing U.K. political landscape. How will Prime Minister Rishi Sunak succeed where his predecessor Liz Truss failed?
‘Imagine waking up as Rishi Sunak this morning. Yes, you are now unexpectedly Prime Minister, thanks to a series of events that unfolded with dizzying speed in recent days. But your fractious parliamentary party has spent weeks or months at one another’s throats, and in the words of one of your own MPs, it has become ungovernable.
Your rivals, the Labour Party, are more than 30 points ahead in the polls, increasingly seen by voters as the more competent and trustworthy on every single issue. Many of your own party rank-and-file do not believe you deserve your new job, and would rather see Boris Johnson inside No 10 instead.’
Read Professor Goodwin‘s full Daily Mail piece here.
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